The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-22 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Parliamentary Returns.) A Return of the Number of NEWSPAPER STAMPS at One Penny and One Halfpenny issued to the several News papers in England, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist De cember 1837 to the 31st of March 1838 inclusive ; specifying each Newspaper by Name, and the Number of Stamps issued each Month during that period to each Newspaper. EXTRACT. LONDON EVENING NEWSPAPERS. The Sun—Dee. 1837 102,000 Jan. 1838 lll,OOO Feb. 1838 96,000 Mar. 1828 lll,OOO Standard... Dec. 1837 78,000 Jan. 1838 105,000 Feb. 1838 lOO,OOO Mar. 1838 lOO,OOO i - Globe Dec. 1837 72,000 Jan. 1838 90,000 Feb. 1838 72,000 Mar. 1838 72,000 Courier Dec. 1837 31,000 Jan. 1838 39,000 Feb. 1838 33,000 Mar. 1838 33,000 420,000 383,000 806,000 136,000 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning . ..... 38 minutes after 1 I Evening 5 minutes after 2 A SPHALTE OF LOBSANN ASSOCIA TION. Capital 360,0001., in 12,000 shares of 30/. each. Deposit 3/. per share, and 2/. premium. Application for shares, in Paris to Messrs. Perrier, Freres, Bankers • and in London, to Mr. W. H. Gree n , S o licito r , 80, asinghall-street. THE following RESOLUTION of THANKS U to LORD C. FITZROY was passed by the Bristol Anti- S!avery Society : At a Meeting of the Committee of the Bristol Anti-Slavery Society, May 14, 1838, It was resolved, " That the thanks of' this Committee be tendered to Lord Charles F'tzroy for his independent support of the motion of Sir George Strick laud, for the emancipation of the apprentices in the British Colonies on the Ist August next, and their regret to understand that his Lordship's voce in the cause of humanity has been visited by the hostility of her Majesty's Ministers." " Burlington House, May, 18, 1838. " have the honour to express to you the high sense of gratification that I feel in receiving for my vote on Sir George Strickland's motion the thanks of such tried friends to humanity as the Anti-Slavery Society of Bristol. I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES FITZROY. To James Whiteliorne, Secretary. The publication of Tim SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 40 minutes past Three o' Clock. WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. An . , ‘ ‘K."9 I .X I T • • • "If:me • i! 1 1 6 AdW `4 Y, ,1 A, a 44.4N0 LONDON : TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1838. The second reading of the Irish Poor Law Bill was carried in the House of Lords last night by a majority of a hundred and twenty-nine—only twenty votes being given against it. Few events, in the present Parliamentary Ses sion, have given us such sincere pleasure. That the Bill will undergo a severe, and as we apprehend, an injurious re vision in Committee, we are prepared to expect from the speeches of the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord LYND HURST ; but nevertheless we shall be well pleased if only the principle be recognized in a measure which from its very novelty must at first be necessarily imperfect. Let the Bill ►be once passed in any shape, and its simple repeal becomes absolutely impossible. This truth, so alarming to the op ponents of the principle of the Bill, reconciles us to the temporary endurance of all its imperfections. It may subsequently be amended—it cannot be repealed. The debate upon it was more than usually animated. The speech of Lord MELBOURNE was one of the most philoso phical ever delivered by the Noble Premier. Without re ference to statistical details—that dullest of Parliamentary business juggleries—the Noble Viscount contrived to take both a Statesman-like and a Christian-like view of the prin ciple of the Bill before their Lordships. We direct parti cular attention to one passage, that our readers may con trast it with a sort of commentary thereon by Earl FITZ WILLIAM : " Poverty was the general condition of man ; it belonged to all na. }ions, it belonged to all climes, it belonged to all the circumstances and situations in which human nature could be placed ; toil, labour, and poverty was the original denunciation against man ; and the whole his tory of the world had only proved its truth, and asserted its divine origin. There was no clime which was not subject to it—there was no state of society which did not generate it. If the soil were hard, rough, and barren, of course it generated it; if the soil were rich, fertile, teeming with life, requiring little or no culture, the result was even =ore certain; because the natural fertility of the soil tended only to deaden all that exertion and energy which was the only solid foundation of real prosperity. If a country were already bowed down with poverty it was almost impossible for it to emerge from that state; but if it increased, and grew, and swelled in wealth and prosperity, then more certainly must poverty ensue, because with in creasing wealth flowed in inordinate desires—indolence, luxury, imps tience of labour, the unwillingness to remain in the station for which one was fitted, desires of sudden and immense wealth, and then came wild speculations which inevitably involved not only those actually con cerned in them, but all who came in contact with them in utter and irrevocable ruin. If, then, this poverty was so universal—if it were a thing so difficult, nay, so impossible to escape, the question for law givers and Governments was how they were to deal with that which they could not avoid. It had been said by some bold and speculative men, looking only to reasoning—apt to forget individual suffering and feeling—" Let us have no Poor-law; do nothing for them at all." They did not positively say that poverty was a crime, but at least, in effect they said that it was very little better ; they said that generally it was the result of idleness, vice, luxury, intemperance ; and that if they de sired to have society established on a proper footing they must leave poverty to its own punishment, and make no provision what. ever for any one suffering under its effects. Now, it might be all very well to say that ; but they could not do it. The nerves of men could not stand it ; they were not sufficiently strong to bear up against be system of that sort." The Noble Viscount might have gone farther than this. He might have contended, with justice, that whatever mi sery is the lot of man, its alleviation is a virtue on the part of his fellow-creatures. God's righteous judgments are as suredly executed, but the wicked are ever the instruments chosen by heaven for the visitation of the divine displeasure. But what says the Earl of FITZWILLIAM in his speech against the principle of a law for the compulsory relief of human misery : " It appeared to him that laws for the benefit of the poor, seemed to rob the supreme governor of the world of some of his attributes, and to over turn a law which he had promulgatcd—namely, " That man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." " Did it never occur to the Noble Earl that the Divine law, which he is so ready to cite on this occasion, contains no clause excluding Peers and their families from its uni versal operation ? Did it never strike his Lordship that there would be some difficulty in showing what right the law of GOD conferred on Princes and Peers to parcel out the earth among themselves—to exclude man from the pos session of his rightful heritage, in order that certain dynas ties and families might be enabled to violate the very law which he has thus dared to evoke ? GOD is no respecter of persons, and in dooming man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, ho made no exception in favour of an heri ditary aristocracy. We therefore warn the Noble Earl to be ware of alluding to the Divine law on the subject of labour, when he has next occasion to address himself to the question of a Poor-law. He may otherwise, without intending it, awaken a spirit of popular inquiry, which is not likely to terminate in an increased respect for the immunities from toil —we had almost said from usefulness—claimed by the aris tocracy of England. But iude?endently of these considera tions, the Noble Earl's objection to a Poor-law is quite as ridiculous as to abolish physic, because it tends to retard the fulfilment of the Divine decree of death passed upon every member of the human family. The speeches of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of DEVON, and the Marquis of LANSDOWNE were strongly in favour of the principle of the Bill. The Noble Duke ex pressed a hope that the Bill would pass this Session, as he regarded its passing as essential to any i m p rovement in the social condition of the sister country. He was confident it would stimulate the activity of landlords, and create a better feeling between themselves and their tenantry. The Earl of DEVON was convinced that it would greatly extend the labour market, and lay the foundation for other measures neg ary to raise Ireland in the scale of nations. Lord LyN HURST'S speech was still more remarkable. He olii4ed to the Bill, but he did o principally on the ground that the feelings of Ireland were not sufficiently consulted and respected. His Lord- ship made the amende honourable in a very handsome man ner, for his unfortunate speech on the Irish Corporation Bill, by praying their Lordships to beware of setting up their own judgment as superior to that of the people of Ireland, upon questions affecting their own interests. He denounced the appointment of Englishmen to the office of Poor-law Commissioners for Ireland, as calculated to wound the national pride of the sister country — to wear the semblance of a treatment inapplicable to any but a conquered Province. We will not forget to remind the Noble and Learned Baron of his new-born respect for the opinions and feelings of the Irish people—should he happen to forget it himself, which is not unlikely—when the Irish Tithe Bill is laid upon their Lord ships' table. We are, however, well pleased, as we already stated, with the result of the debate, and particularly with the statesmanlike parts which Lord MELBOURNE and the Duke of 'WELLINGTON took in it. We repeat that the passing of the Bill, in some shape, is all that we look forward to in the present Session. We would recommend to the Bishop of EXETER a care ful perusal of a Report made by Mr. NICHOLLS to the Home Secretary, on the state of education and pauperism in the Netherlands, and particularly that part of it which relates to the system of education in Holland. Never was there a finer exemplification of the plan which Lord STAN LEY introduced into Ireland, or a stronger proof of the blessings it might confer on the people of that country, were it not marred by the bigotry of political fanatics, who, under the cloak of religion, excite the worst passions of the human heart among men that otherwise would dwell to gether in unity. Our ancestors have been justly charged with committing the greatest crimes under the pretence of preserving the true faith, but, unfortunately, this charge does not apply to them alone. No calamity is greater than a civil war, and no persecutor, even with faggots and flame, ought to be an object of such abhorrence as the priest who, to render his own dogmas paramount, or preserve undivided the spoils of the Catholic Church, continues, from day to day to inflame the passions of men of different creeds, and thereby prepare them for imbruing their hands in each other's blood. We acquit the Bishop of EXETER of such an intention ; but can we on that account be silent on the numerous calami ties which these half political, half theological, harangues, so incessantly repeated by him and others of the same sect, produce ? We are told by their organs that murders are daily committed in Ireland on account of religion—that Catholics consider it no crime to murder a Protestant— that their representatives in Parliament are perjurers, and their priests are surpliced ruffians ; and when Government wisely introduced a system of education by which children of different sects might be brought up together, and attach ments formed in youth which would prevent the bloodshed too often committed in manhood, every obstacle is thrown in the way, on the vain pretence that this system endan gers the Protestant Establishment. If this is the only way to uphold Protestantism, in what respect is the system better than that adopted by MAHONIET ? Nay, is it not worse, in proportion as a civil war, in the words of the Duke of WELLINGTON, is the most dreadful of all wars ? Contrast the state of Holland with that of Ireland at the present moment. The clergy of the three principal sects in Hol land, Calvinists, Catholics, and Lutherans, are supported by the State. In the schools every sect of Christians is taught. The great truths on which all are agreed, are carefully inculcated—points of religious controversy form no part of the educatien, and all disputable points are care fully avoided—all appear to live in perfect amity without the slightest distinction in the common intercourse of life, and this, adds Mr. Ntctrou.s, contributes mainly to the high moral and intellectual condition of the Dutch people, We leave the Bishop of EXETER to describe the picture on the other side. We noticed with approbation on Thursday the spirited conduct of the Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty, in offering the sum of 100 guineas for the best Essay against the principle of National Church Establishments. The Times this miming takes up the same theme, but i❑ a sense adverse to our remarks, and hostile to the Society. The case it makes out proceeds on misunderstanding, or misrepresenting, the object of the Society ; but whether blundering stupidity, or wilful ma lignity, have dictated the article, we must leave the reader to decide : " The Society say, that perceiving the efforts made to eulogize, perpe tuate, and extend National Religious Establishments, and being con vinced that expanded, honest inquiry, and impartial discussion, will lead to other conclusions more favourable to truth, public morals, Chri►tian piety, the vindication of the rights of conscience, the general welfare and improvement and salvation of the people, they have resolved to give, &c., to the authors of the best and second-best essays supporting the opinions they have expressed." Now in this there is no question as to the abstract right of men to dissent from that body of doctrine which the State patronizes—that question was fully decided in the affirmative at the Reformation, and is practically answered by the legal existence of Dissenters. But there is a question as to " eulogizing, perpetuating and extending National Religious Establishments," and the Society offers a reward for the best essay to disprove the utility of such Establishments. It is a far larger ques tion than the mere existence of dissent, which implies the existence of . an Establishment against the very principle of which the Society aims, The Society boldly avows its hostility to Church Establishments, and it honestly offers a fee to the best advocate of its opinions. The question does not concern the right of dissent from an Establish ment ; it has nothing to do with the exclusive principle of dissent ; or rescuing any party from odium ; but it is one of the most important political questions that can now be dis cussed, and which interests the welfare of all. It has been left as unsettled by the lectures of Dr. CHALMERS as by the writings of Bishop WARBURTON. This great and im portant question is thus misdescribed by the Tinges " With their own minds resolutely made up in favour of Dissent, in spite of all the lights which further reasoning or research may let in upon this subject, they distinctly apprise the candidates for their guineas that the competing essays must on no account run counter to the opinion of the advertisers. Here we have religious liberty with a witness. Any writer who, fearlessly following the course to which sound argument may lead him, should produce a work completely vindicating religious establishments to the satisfaction of the now divided world, is de clared to be too honest an inquirer to receive these gentlemen's money. The impartial discussion' which they club their gold for is to be conducted on the exclusive principle of supporting dissent, What these amateurs of free discussion want is, not the triumph of truth, but the rescue of their party from the odium and contempt under which they are gasping their last; and really, were it not that the wretched Janissaries who enter such a service are pledged by the very terms of their enlistment to degrade literature and disgrace religion, we could almost wish that some distinguished writer would test de Society's love for impartial discussion' by presenting them with an essay which, while prostrating their voluntaryism in the dust, should subject them to the exquisite torture of rejecting a superior work, and of bestowing their guineas upon a twaddler." The passage deserves to be treasured up against the principle of an Establishment. If the offering a poor sum of 100 guineas to support particular opinions be hostile to religious liberty, pray what is the annual endowment of several millions sterling ? Is not the principle avowed by the Times that 100 guineas is to hire Janissaries to de grade literature, by their being pledged to particular opinions, true of every Rectory, every See, and every Professorship belonging to the endowed Church ? They can only be enjoyed by subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles, and by following, in every particular, the doctrines of the Church of England. Is not this a violation of religious li berty, for which, as against the Dissenters, the Times wishes to be thought an advocate? We know, too, by the conduct of the bulk of the clergy in the case of Dr. HAMPDEN, by the manner in which all Church perferment is bestowed on the professors of particular opinions, and by the severity with which every deviation from the received doctrines is visited —how rigidly a strict adherence to those articles is en forced. If they are Janissaries, who on the offer of a 100 guineas, write against religious establishments, what must the priests of (he endowed Church be who for a Living fashion their thoughts, and minds, and degrade all the literature they touch, by t,:e standard of the Thirty-nine Articles ? The Dissenters ought to feel only gratitude to the Times for the severe condemnation which it has unintentionally pronounced against bestowing even the smallest possible sum to influence the opinions or doctrines of any person. Well may the Times say that the fruits of Dr. CHALMERS' Lectures are beginning to appear ; and they will ripen in due time, not however as our Contemporary wishes. The proceedings at the Crown and Anchor Tavern yes terday have brought the Tories to their senses, and taught them a lesson which they will not soon forget. Tbey have of late been speculating rather largely in the gullibility of the people ; so largely, indeed, that they seemed to have arrived at the comfortable conclusion that the people care little or nothing about principles, and are consequently in different to the conduct of public men. That this would be a most desirable state of popular feel ing for the Tories we do not deny, and therefore we do not wonder to see that unprincipled faction labouring to bring it about by every means in their power. For what other purpose have they been parading Sir FRANCIS BURDETT through the provinces, than to debauch the public mind by rendering it familiar with all that is pro fligate, base, and disgusting in political conduct ? The trick, however, has been overdone ; the bubble has been blown until it has burst ; and the exhibitors of the mounte bank apostate are, we presume, now convinced that to im pose upon the credulity of the ignorant chid-poles of Wilt shire, and to make the enlightened inhabitants of the Metropolis put the seal of their approbation to the greatest dereliction of principle of which there is any example in the history of politics, are two very different things. The organs of the worthless faction with which this man has allied himself, are loud and violent in their condemna tion of the proceedings of the meeting. There is no mea sure in the abuse which they pour out against those who could be guilty of such outrageous conduct towards an old man who had once been so popular, and that too on the very scene of his popularity—the spot where so many vic tories had been achieved by him for the people. Now as to outrage there was none ; the crowded assembly expressed their sentiments only by those modes which are usual on such occasions ; and if they did so—as we admit they did—with more than usual energy, it redounds the more to their credit. It was not the old man that they condemned, hut the old traitor—the man who had in his old age be trayed the glorious cause, which in his youth he had worshipped—who had deserted his old friends, and his old principles from disappointed vanity, and who had the effrontery to come forward and proclaim his tergiver sation within the walls which had so often heard him vow eternal fidelity to the cause of liberty and of the people. Honour to the inhabitants of Westminster for the noble support which they have thus given to public virtue. In our advertising columns will be found a resolution of thanks from the Bristol Anti-slavery Society, to Lord CHARLES FITZROY, and his Lordship's reply. Al though his Lordship makes no a:usion to the immediate cause of his dismissal, yet we cannot suppose that he would be so disingenuous as to evade the question, by leaving it to be inferred that it arose from any other cause. Never has any country been so long and perseveringly misgoverned as Ireland. In that ill-fated land everything up to the present hour has been a job. Lord REDESDALE declared " that there was one law for the rich and another for the poor," and we behold there a " State Church," up held for the instruction of the wealthy few, at the expense of the indigent many ; while in the giant monopoly of the Bank of Ireland we see the interests of millions sacrificed to enrich a fractional portion of the favored ascendancy class. The Bank of Ireland, as a National Establishment, has not one redeeming feature in its character ; in com mercial matters it has conducted its affairs in a narrow, illiberal spirit, and much after the fashion of the " dog in the manger," refused to do good itself, or permit others to accomplish it, while its political bias (for a political bias it has always displayed) has been intolerant and sectarian to an extent that even in this country could hardly be ima gined. The Bank of England has here inflicted much injury, but the Bank of Ireland to the Irish people has been a positive curse. There, the paper of the semi insolvent Orange merchant has been discounted at the same time that the same facility has been denied to the liberal trader. It gives us great pleasure to observe that those who are the victims of this pernicious system have already taken the field ; and at a town meeting in Drogheda it was unanimously resolved to petition Parliament against the re newal of the Charter without modification, and a Depu tation consisting of the MAYOR and some of the most con siderable merchants are on their way, if they have not already arrived, to London, to press the demand of their fellow-citizens. This is as it should be, and we hope the example will soon be followed by other places of considera tion in Ireland. We know that the Bank must possess great power, and that its influence will be exerted to inti midate persons from exposing the pernicious effects of its mo nopoly ; however, we trust that there is sufficient independ ence in the country to effectually combat and put down this chartered nuisance. The following vigorous article from the Spectator does good service at this particular time, and will assist to " drag into day" an abuse which could only have existed amidst injustice and misgovernment : It is manifestly not desired by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer that the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of Ire laud should he much discussed. The Government Journals are silent on the subject ; and the Tories have their own rea sons for desiring a snug bargain beta eon the Bank and the Treasury. At present the institution is completely under the control of Tories ; and the influence it can exercise in various ways is not adverse to them as a political party. o But the Irish public have considerable interest in seeing that no jugg ling is practised, and that the monopoly (for in a largedegree it is a monopoly) of the Bank is not continued. With the view of communicating useful information on a subject not familiar even to Irishmen, we shall state some particulars, de rived from good authority, respecting the history, and proceed. ins and views of this bank. The Bank of Ireland, at its original formation in 1782 (under the 21st and 22d George III.), commenced with a capital of 600,000/. Irish.t By the 31st George 111., chapter 22, the capital was increased from 600,0001. to 1,000,000/. ; and the Charter extended until the expiration of twelve months' notice after the Ist January 1816. By the 37th George 111 , chapter 50, the capital was raised from 1,000,000/. to 1,500,000/. In 1808, by the 48th George 111., chapter 103, the capital was increased from 1,500,0001. to 9 ,500,000/. ; and the Char ter extended until the end of twelve months' notice to be given , after the Ist January 1837, and the repayment of all sums due to the Bank by Government. In 1821, the capital amounted to 3,000,0001. Irish ; of which 2,850,0001. has been advanced to Government at 4 per cent. interest ; further, the Bank paid to Government in 1791, for the then renewal of the Charter, as a free gift, 60,000/, Irish in two instalments. On the 30th June 1803, the surplus fund of the Bank stood at 489,5001. Irish; but on the 31st December 1836, after a constant rise, it had reached 1,053,1001. British. The net annual profit of the Bank from 1833 to 1836, upon its capital of 3,000,0001. has ranged from 0 51,826/. to 241,1831. per annum ; and the yearly dividends have been at no time less than 61- per cent., excepting in 1783 and 1784, when they were 5, and 1792 and 1798, when they were 2 1 per cent. From 1800 t o 1814, h oweve r, th e y were 7, 71, ana 7-N. From 1814 to 1829, excepting two years, they were 10 per cent. ; and since 1829, excepting one year, when they came down to 81, they have been 9 ycr cent. Besides these immense divi dends, the favoured proprietors, at different times since 1793, have received bonuses amounting to no less than 655,000/. Irish. The only return for this vast monopoly is all com prised in the payment of 60,0001. Irish in 1791. As to the loans advanced to Government, they have been all highly ad vantageous to the Bank, as the country is now paying it four per cent, upon two and a half millions of a loan, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer could eaily raise at 31 per cent. Since 1808, the Bank has managed the public debt of Ireland free of charge, and at an annual expense to itself (as it states) of 15,000/. ; but then, as a set-off to this, by its last charter, dated in 1821, its notes were made receivable in payment of Government Securities. Bank of Ireland notes, though not made legal tender by statute, have been commonly received as such in most com mercial transactions. t According to a late deliberate opinion of the Crown Lawyers, Bank of England notes are a legal tender in all eases in Ireland. It is estimated that the Bank owes the Irish people 7,000,0001. for deposits and notes outstanding. It has a monopoly, being the only bank that can issue notes in Dublin, or for a circuit of fifty miles round ; which prevents such towns as Drogheda, Dundalk, Newry, and Carlow, with many others, participating in the local advantages arising from banking establishments. The fifteen Directors are almost all persons who are embarked in trade themselves : they are usually Tory in p o li t i cs . Suet influences, operating in tl monied establishment, must clearly be attended with evil consequences to the commercial prospe rity of the country. The modification of the charter, upon its renewal in 1821, led to the establishment of the Irish Provin cialt Bank ; and the success which a ttended that institution, o proves how much Ireland was bef o r e the victim of monopoly The prosperity of Belfast may in a g r eat degree be ascribed to the ,, freedomlnreply which it h toquestions addressed asenjoyed by in fur nished the information containe d in this ar ticle, it is stated, that " though no Act of Parliament o r p rovision in t he charter of the Bank excluded Catholics from the Boa rd of Directors (after 189.9, when the us bankingte the gentleman who as it has had Catholic disabilities were removed, all doubt on this point was done away), a bye law was till lately enforced, by which they were excluded. The Directors have a " House-list,' which is almost always carried. The large proprietors unite to control the smaller ones in Ireland ; and the English proprietary, as long as they receive large dividends, have no motive to interfere. The stock does not frequently change hands ; and as till within a year or two, under the operation of the byelaw men tioned, Catholics were excluded, and practically Liberals also, and now there are only two Catholics in the direction, the Bank may fairly be called a great Tory monopoly. In the early period of the Bank's exis tence, bills offered for discount by Catholic merchants of undoubted wealth were rejected, and heavy losses were occasioned by loans to needy and insolvent Protestants. The Quakers, though among the wealthiest citizens of Dublin, have never been allowed to put a single Director on the Board." _ t In 1828, the currency of Ireland was assimilated to that of Great Britain : previously it was Si per cent. less valuable. " Bank of Ireland notes, as a consideration for managing the Debt, of Ireland free of expense, are taken in payment of duties; and if the Bank failed, the officers would not be liable fur any sum paid in those notes. When Mr, Spring Thee was a Director of the Provincial Bank, he and Sir Robert Peel succeeded in procuring a Treasury minute, by virtue of which, the notes of that bank are also taken in payment of duties. An undue preference is thus liven to the Provincial Rank over other Joint Stock Banks ; for which the only discernible reason is, that Mr. Spring Rice and Sir Robert Peel hold shares in it." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1838. for years the accommodation of three or four most prosperous private and sharchold banks, which, had it been placed some thirty miles nearer Dublin, the monopoly of the Bank of Ire land would have deprived it of. It is hard to say what sort of thing the report of the Joint Stock Bank Committee will be, or what it will recommend as regards the renewal of the Bank of Ireland charter. In this respect it is perhaps unfortunate that there are but three Irish Members upon that Committee. One is Mr. Jephson, not a commercial man, ;and probably knowing little of banking affairs. Another, Mr. Spring Rice, certainly was, until he became Finance Minister, a Director of the Provincial Bank of Ire land : it is thought he will have a leaning to the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland, or else, should he be disposed to allow a Joint Stock Bank to become its rival as an issuable one, will be favourable to the granting of a charter, by the Board of Trade, to the Provincial. (This the Board of Trade can do by a late Act of Parliament.) The third Irish Member is Mr. O'Connell, a shareholder in the National Joint. Stock Company Bank : as it is notorious that this gentleman's name, when employed to frighten the Bank Directors in their parlour, procured two large sums for the use of the National during the panic, it is felt that he is not placed in the most favourable circumstances for perfect impartiality and inde pendence. The withdrawal of that portion of the exclusive privileges of the Bank of Ireland which gives it a monopoly in Dublin and for fifty miles round, and the passing of one law for the regu lation of Joint Stock Banks throughout the United Kingdom, placing Ireland upon the same footing as Scotland, would be a greater benefit to the country than all the fractions of " jus tice," or " instalments" upon Irish questions, yet propounded, whether earnestly and in good faith, or in party pretence. As a proof that there is plenty of unemployed capital in Ire land, it may he mentioned that there is one Savings Bank in Dublin in which half a million of money is now deposited, the surplus of the humbler classes. A Letter on the Copyright Bill of Mr. Sergeant TAL FOURD has been sent to us by Messrs. LONGMAN and Co., and will be f iund in another part of our paper. These eminent publishers, it will be perceived, do not join in the oppssition which these disinterested patriots TEGG, WAK LEY, and Co., are endeavoung, to stir up against the Bid. They object not to a law which has for its object to restore to a highly deserving class of the community those rights of which they have been unjustly deprived, and to place them on a footing of equality with their fellow-citizens. The Messrs. LONGMAN, with that liberality of feeling which characterises all their transactions with literary men, disclaim all intention or wish to interfere with any enact ment which may be intended to benefit authors, provided it involves no injustice to other persons. Certain clauses of the Bill in question will, in their opinion, operate most un justly on the interests of publishers, and they state their objections to those clauses in forcible but not intemperate language. Objections thus brought forward are entitled to, and will receive, consideration both from the press and from the legislature. Messrs. LONGMAN confine their com plaints to the injury which will result to them and other publishers from the retrospective operation proposed to be given to the new law. They hold that, after having, by special agreement, already bought up, for large sums, the whole of the authors' interest, future as well as present in the copyrights purchased by them, it is highly unjust that copyrights thus sold out and out, should revert to the au thors at the end of the existing term, and again be made the subject of bargain. They have, it appears, in all their assignments, a clause expressed in the following terms : " The author disposes of all and every the entire copyright, and all reversion, renewal, and extension of copyright, as well present as future, vested as contingent for the term of twenty-eight years, and all such further and other term as the author then had, or should at any time thereafter have or acquire." Now, we very much doubt whether these words would convey to a publisher any right which was to be created for authors by a future law ; but this is a purely legal question, with which it is hardly within our province to meddle. Of this, however, we have no doubt, that if an author meant to assign, and did assign any interest which a future law might give him in the copyright of his works, he is morally bound to fulfil the assignment as far as it de pends on him. And not only is he morally bound to per form his part of the contract ; but were such an assignment brought into litigation in a Court of Justice, after the pass ing of Sergeant TALFOURD'S Bill in its present form, it would, we are confident, be held to be also binding in law. Nothing short of an enactment, specially annulling such assignments, would warrant a judge to dispense with their obligation. We therefore think that those publishers who have purchased Copyrights in this manner from authors now alive need be under no apprehension as to the effect of Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD'S Bill. If the author is dead, of course his assignment cannot convey a right which he never "had or acquired." The Copyright, in such a case, must, at the expiry of the present term revert to his repre sentatives. There is, however, another view which may l:e taken of this particular point. It is possible that the Legislature may he of opinion that, as it would not be jus'ified in in terfering to relieve authors from the consequences of acts deliberately performed—of deeds signed, sealed and deli vered—so neither is it called upon to give effect to them by a law expressly passed for that purpose. The Bill for the extension of Copyrights having only two objects in view, namely the benefit of authors and the public advantage, it is the duty of the Legislature to consider whether these objects will be promoted by allow ing publishers to retain copyrights beyond the expiry of the term fixed by the law under which they were pur chased. If it shall be found that authors cannot be bene fited, and that the interests of the public, to whom the copyright belongs at the end of the term, would be inju riously affected by granting to publishers a continuance of their exclusive privilege beyond that term, it is not impro bable that the class of cases referred to may be entirely excepted from the operation of the Bill, and allowed to fol low the course of the law as it now exists. It will also be for the Legislature to consider whether, in order to give the desired effect to the measure, it may not be necessary to prevent all such assignments in future. On general principles we are averse to the limitation of the exercise of a man's right of property ; nor is much good to be expected, in' ordinary cases, from legislative attempts to make men provident in spite of themselves. Neverthe less, there are exceptions to this rule, and, in our opinion, one of these is the case of literary property. It is not merely because an author is almost always in a state of pecu niary dependence, and therefore, compelled by the pressure of immediate circumstances to give in to the publisher's terms, however grinding they may be, that we would re strict him in the disposal of the copyright of his works ; but because, from the very nature of the property itself, it is ut terly impossible to ascertain its real value until years have elapsed. The humane purpose of the Learned Member who introduced the Bill was not only that authors should be benefited in their own persons, but also that their families should be benefited after their death. On no part of his subject did he dwell with so much eloquence, or carry with him more triumphantly the glowing feelings of the House of Commons, than on this. But it is manifest that if the copyright of a work is sold for the whole of' the exteruled term, the author's family will be in no better sit n ation than under the present law. Thirty years might perhaps be a good period to fix fur the publisher's exclu sive privilege to subsist, at the end of which time the copyright might revert to the author's family. At all events, no one but the author has a right to object to the limitation, be it what it may; which the Legislature may impose upon him in the disposal of his property. There is another class of cases alluded - to by Messrs. LONGMAN, with which we think it will be by no means so difficult to deal as they apprehend ; we mean those in which additions have been made to the original work by the publisher. It is feared, that, in such cases, the conflict ing claims of the author's family and the publisher would produce results injurious to the latter, as well as to the cause of literature, because if he did not re-purchase the c opyright of the part furnished by the author, the book might be pulled to pieces, and he would thus be deprived of the benefit of his additions. But where is the hardship in this, or where the insurmountable difficulty ? Arc not the additions of the publisher as necessary to the author as the original matter is to the publisher? Neither is of any use as a marketable commodity without the other, and the result in this case, as in the thousand similar ones that are every day taking place, would be a compromise, or settle ment of the dispute on terms mutually advantageous. The Paris Papers of Sunday have all been received, but their contents, with the exception of the annexed brief ex tracts, are quite unimportant. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged on Saturday with the budget for 1839. The Bill for reducing the interest on the Five per Cents., was under discussion in the Chamber of Peers : FRONTIER , ; OF SPAIN.— A telegraphic despatch announces, as we know, the departure of Don Carlos from Estella for Onate, in ccnke. quence of the mutiny of the troops. Yet the news from the frontier re. ceived this morning shews that he was at Estella on the 13th ; this is explained by the Bayonne Journal of the 17th. On the 1 1th, in the morning, Dan Carlos left Estella, with a eirall escort, but having met on the way General Guergue at the head of seven battalions of Biscay and Alava, which had been sent the day before he returned to the town with them. He ordered a grand review cf all the troops in the plain of Decastello, where he harangued them and ex horted them to return to order and observe the discipline which is so necessary in an army. As the spirit of insubordination continued Guergue made all the troops which had manifested their discontent, and cried Death to the Juntas and Peace! go on the 12th to Carrascal. They are composed of six Navarre Battalions, including the three which mutinied the day before. No punishment hadbeen ventured upon, and caresses and pro mises have been lavished on the troops, to induce them to depart. It is doubtful whether this measure will quiet them, they are too exaspe rated against the Junta. Want of money, distress, heavy contributions, and the failure of the expedition, are calculated to add to the embar rassment of Don Carlos. He was to review on the 13th the battalions brought by Guergue. Though the Navarrese battalions were sent away it was still affirmed that Don Carlos would leave Estella for Onate, where he would be more secure from attacks by the Queen's Generals, and from insurrectionary movements. The Phare de Bayonne says, that the cause of the mutiny was the news brought by Baron Los Valles, of the suspension of the subsidies from Russia and the Italian Princes.—Comnzerce. We have received a file of the Jamaica Gazette to the sth ultimo, and the Austral-Asiatic Review to the 6th o December, but in neither du we find any intelligence of public interest. A. Morning Contemporary has published, in Second Edition, the following important intelligence from the ports of Kingston, Mexico, and Rio Janeiro : FALMOUTH, MAY 30—Her Majesty's packet Star, Lieut. Smith, arrived here at noon from the West Indies, with a mail, having left St. Thomas's on the 24th April, and only bringing on freight 3,0001. The news by her is not important, although much anxiety continued to be felt as regards the question connected with the apprenticing system, and its being annulled on the Ist August next. The Governor of Jamaica, Sir Lionel Smith, it is understood, will remain until the expiration of that period, when he would retire from the Governorship, and return to Ei;gland. Her Majesty's packet Pandora, Lieut. Innis, has arrived this after noon from M.xico. She left Vera Cruz on the 7th of April, Tam pico on the 14th, and the Havannah on the 22d, ssith mails, and on freight 600,000 dollars. At the time of her leaving Vera Cruz the French force were still off that port, and were determined in their inter). lions to blockade the ports of the Republic on the 15th of April, in case the Government did not yield to their terms by that date. The French Minister continued on board one of the ships of the squadron, and the authorities in Mexico had unequivocally refused to negotiate respecting the demand made, more particularly so whilst it was sought to be enforced with such a maritime power in the Mexican seas. Her Majesty's packet Opossum, Lieut. Peters, has arrived from the Brazils. She 1,11 Rio de Janeiro on the 22d March, bringing 117,000 dollars, and the usual mails. The exchange at date of her leay. ing was at ‘2,q, showing a decline of one penny since last dated advices. The city was tranquil. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (FRom OUR CORRESPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTH, MAT 21.—Last evening an unfortunate occurrence took place alongside the Rainbow, 28, which ship, together with the Dublin, 50, and Childers, 1 S, came into harbour on Saturday last, for the purpose of being paid off. It appears that a Waterman in his boat, en. deavoured to get alongside the ship, and that the sentry on duty at the gangway, had received orders not to allow shore boats of any description to do so. Notwithstanding the repeated warnings which the Waterman received, he still persisted in endeavouring to accomplish his object, when the First Lieutenant gave orders for the sentry to fire, and the ball passed through the body of the man, without killing him, but leaving him in a hopeless state. Although the right of firing into a boat under such circumstances cannot be defended, yet if it shall appear (as is stated) that the Lieutenant directed the sentry not to load with ball, it is to be hoped that the same will be favourably considered, even should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty direct a Court Martial hereon, or should (more unfortunately) the Coroner have to summon a Jury on the body. The Thalia, 411, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Campbell from the Cape of Good Hope, arrived yesterday, and will proceed to the eastward lobe paid off. The Pantaloon, 10, will sail to-morrow with dispatches for the North Coast of Spain. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The cases hi this Court, before Mr. Sergeant Arabin, were totally de. void of any interest. The Session, it is expected, will terminate to-day. TIIE NEWCASTLE ELECTION.—The trial of Robert Gallimore. aged 48, indicted (with Enoch Wall and Samuel Plant) for perjury, was resumed yesterday, and, after a long trial, the defendant was found guilty. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Hobart Town nape's have been received to the 16th December. The Bussorah Merchant, from Ireland, with emigrants, arrived out. Great havoc was made on the passage by the Veall pox and the measles —not less than four adults and fifty.eight children having died. The pilot who conducted the ship up the river very unguardedly brought her right into the harbour, and was now kept under strict quarantine, and proceeded to the Snug river, there to remain until the medical officer shall have reported her free from infection. We have arrivals of packets from the West Indies and Vera Cruz, bringing a number of papers from the Leeward Islands and Jamaica. On a perusal of them, we find that they do net contain any news of im. porta n cc. Thedebate in the House of Lords last night, with the meeting at the Croon and Anchor, prove more interesting to the public than the details Gom the above papers. FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the same prices they closed at yes terday, 941 a for the Account ; Money the same. Little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 67 69; India Bonds, 77; Bank Stock, 204 to 205; India ditto, 2701. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active 211 22 ; Portuguese, 35i 36 Three per Cents., 24i ; Brazilian, Hi ; Mexican, 28i; Columbian ; 271 2S'; Dutch Two.and-a-Half, 5.41. 1. .:, ICE:, ti I. ,s;:irkiZk.s 1•4•:S IJA Y AT ONF: O'CLOCK Paid. Per Sha: c. Uniti.d Mexican (issued at 21. pm.) i•ristol :Inc' Exeter Railway Company lO 8% 8 3.l.i.iiton li aiiwal Company London and Blackwall Railway London and i:ititliarnpton Railway Company 5O 45 i,ondon and Southampton (New) Railway lO 30 ~, Ml:nchester and Birmingham Railway 7 9+/, 9 North Midland Railway Company 35 41% Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 Do. Scotch 2 2% Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac Do. Robinson Do. Polonceau Galvanized Iron Company Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 43 HALF-PAST ONE. To the present hour, we do not hear of any feature worth noticing either in the British or Foreign Market. Consols may be quoted at the prices of the early part of the morning, 94i I for the Account and Money, with little doing. Exchequer Bills lower, 68 66; India Bonds also, 78 76; Bank Stock, 204.1 205; India Stock, 2701. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active receded from 2114 22 to 21 y, N, with Coupons; Portuguese also lower—receded from 35i 36 to 35} ; Three per Cents., 231 24-.1 ; Brazilian steady at 80; ; Mexican, 28; ; Colombian, 271 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 544 L. The Share Market very flat, with little doing. Prices much the same as yesterday. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 941 i. THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 2013% India Stock — 3-per Cent. Red 43% Ditto Bonds 76 3 per Cent. Cons B4%' Ditto Old Annuities ll?,:, per Cent Ditto New Annuities (3% per Cent. Red 101%'Ex. Bills, 1100/ 254(1 66 pm. New 314 per Cent 10'2% Ditto 50;1 C 6 pie. Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001 66 pm. Jan. 186 i Oct. 1850 Jan. 1960 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Ronds, 5 per cent.. 72 Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto -35% Brazilian Bonds Bl Prussian, 5 per cent Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent Russia% Bonds, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic — Colombiam, 6 per cent 27% Spanish, 5 per cent 21% Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. 108 f. 50; Greek Ends, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, (i per cent.. 1825 — Dutch, 2% per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent. — Ditto, 5 per cent. ... lOO% (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY). Bristol and Exeter Railway London and Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway London and Birmingham Railway London and Greenwich Railways l63 Ca London and Southampton Railway London and Southampton (New) 303 Manchester and Birmingham Railway 9 North Miuland Railway National Loan Fund SOUTH AMERICAN PAPERS. (From the Correio Official.) RIO DE JANEIRO, MARCH 7.—BAITIA AND Rio Grum:in.—The ac. counts last received from Bahia are not of a more recent date than those we published a few days ago, and which gave an account of the favour able appearance of affairs at that time, and the probability of the speedy quelling of the insurrection. A private letter states that the rebels had just proclaimed the freedom of slaves born in Bahia. In the city the people were dying with hunger. The Wizard; art English brig, had lately been to Raparica to fetch pro visions for the British subjects, tut scarcely had the sailors landed to convey the provisions to the house of the Consul, when the famished people fe.l upon the escort and carried off all the provisions. The accounts from Rio Grande do Sul are snore favourable than those lately received; they confirm the reports lately spread in the city of the raising of the sieve of Porto Alegre, and of the desertion of about 700 rebels who had enlisted under the Imperial standard. Marten I.l.—The provincial assembly of Rio de Janeiro, held on the Sth of this month, approved the first articles of the proposal made by Senor Midosi, for the formation of a Company to introduce iron railrr ads, to communicate with the interior of the province. The pro posal gave rise to a very long debate. MARCH ?.o.—The Correia contains official dispatches fromPorto Alegre, dated Feb 19, in which the Governor, Elisiasio de Miranda e Brito, in forms the Minister of the Interior of the comFlete suppression of the rebellion in the province of Rio Grande by the entire dispersion of the rebels, who had fled in all directions on the approach of the imperial troops, abandming their caravans and a quantity of cattle and horses, burning their baggage, &c. The Government troops had not fired a shot, as they broke up and dispersed as soon as the troops got sight of them. The inhabitants of the province who had been misled came by hundreds to testify their revAltance and implore the protection of the Government. — Correio Official, to March 21 inclusive. Lord Charles Fitzroy presented on Monday twenty three petitions from different places in the county of Suffolk, for the immediate abolition of the apprenticeship system in our colonies. The Petition from the inhabitants of Bury St. Edmunds was more numerously signed than any petition that had ever emanated from that town. Liberal Members will not forget the debate of Fri day, and the reasons why Sir Bobert Peel postponed it until that day, in order to gather his forces together and try a fresh battle after Tuesday's defeat. We need not remind them that their presence there will be also requisite —merely to receive becomingly the Right Hon. Baronet and his friends. The Dutch papers mention that 120 emigrnnts, chiefly frorri Baden and Wirtemburg, arrived at Amsterdam on the 1 lth inst., to embark in a vessel which was shortly to 8..,1 for North America ARCHDEACON BATHURST AND QUEEN CAROLINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. North Crenke, May 21, IS3S. Strt,—My attention h as thi s d ay b een d raw n to a passage in the second volume of a book, p. 305, called " Memoirs of George the Fourth, by Mr. Robert Hoist)," in which it is said (speaking of the late Q ueen Caroline's attendance at St. P au l' s a f ter t h e di sm i ssa l of the Bill of Pain! and Penalties) " The Rev. Archdeacon Bathurst solicited the honour of delivering a Discourse whi c h h e h a t prepare d , b u t the request was re fused, &c." Now I am very far from b e i ng as h ame d o f t h e part which I took u p on this occasion, nor am I surp r i se d at t h e terms i n w hich this matter is represented, as my late father toll me that some officious, ill-natured, and ill-informed person about the Court of that time, had informed has Majesty George the Fourth that I had volunteered my services, upon which an answer was given by his Majesty, which I shall not repeat My late father, however, kindly d es i re d t h e N o bl eman who menti oned the matter to him to set th e ma tt er r i g h t w i t h t h e King—whether be was so set right or not lam una bl e to say; b ut t h a t the public may correctly informed on the subject I b eg t o g i ve th e foll ow i ng two letters which, without introducin g o th er d ocuments, are qu ite sufficient to se e the matter right—and L or d B roug h am i s st ill li v i ng as a witness t o the communications. The following letter was w r itt en on th e T ues d a y of the week pre ceding the procession of her M a j es ty Q ueen C aro li ne to St. Paul's 44 IttleSCl3l.l. " Dear Sir,—Her Majesty having appoint e d to go to Church a Paul's on Wednesday, the 29th i ns t. , b o th s h e an d ma ny of her friends. feel anxious that you sho u ld p reac h t h e sermon upon t h a t occasion, W & before asking you, I have bee n d es i re d t o ascer t a i n h o w far you m i g ht feel inclined to do so. " Believe me with great esteem and respect, truly your's, " HENRY BROUGHan AM." .11 The above letter being sent to N orw i c h , did no t rea ch my d.". 11 The Friday. I composed a short sermon, however, which afterward s " published under Mr. (now Lord) B roug h am ' s i nspec ti on , which was w4l received by the people at large, and not unkindly nor ungenerously n' the party opposed. I went imm e di a t e ly t o L on d on , accompanied y Mrs. Bathurst, and the following Mo n d a y th e f o ll ow ing letter was re ceived by me at Stevens's Hotel, from M r. B roug h am : h h " Dear Sir,—l am sincerely vexed and sorr y a t the trouble w to have given you. From not hearin g b e f ore I was p re vented writi n g:: you. But the Bishop of Llandaff, Dean of St. Paul's, had lat e on b: turday, refused permission to have a serm on p reac h e d ; and whet"' t fl t b rules of the Cathedral will permit y ou to officiate in the service I Call--t yet say, but have sent to inquire.- " I am obliged to go this morning to the Court of Exchequer, witere I shall be till three o'clock, when I shall endeavour to wait on Y"' "I am truly uneasy at h av i ng g i ven you so muc h trou ble, but P' sume my addressing the letter to Norwich caused the delay. Believe me with great respect and esteem, your's respectful l y , " H. BROUG 111° , 1 :: h ' The above letters contain the best illu s tr a ti o n o f th e part which, acted on the occasion alluded to, and form a ve ry s m a ll p ar t of interest ing communications, illustrative of the conduct of parties, which at the r h c " quest of a near connection,' suppressed in the lif e o f m y f a ther. n u t t , t „,!. passage in the publication alluded to not only fully will excuse, bu i ; e periously calls on me thus far to disclose what actually passed as to t matter here specially in question. I am, your obedient servant, H. BATHURST' •D'S SHIPPING,-TIIIS DA DEAL, MAY 21.—Wind E.S.E., fine weather.—Arrived and PI: ceeded for the River, the Caesar, Sims, from Demerara; Osbert, 1)3 • rymple, from Dominica ; St. Christoph er , C our t s , f rom Trinidad; n ' e , raid, Neilson, from St. Vincent's ; R over, R a i ns, f rom the South se', s s ' Ocean, Siddle, from Cadiz; Venus, Martin, from Guernsey; steamer, from New York, in twenty day s; Plant er , f r om Sierra rie ° ";:d and Isabella, Dunning, from Demerara. Came down from the Riv er b Is , No proceeded, the Mayflower, Headley, f or H o b ar t T own; Eden, e. for Sydney ; Caernarvon, Irving, fo r ditt o ; Hib ern i a , F o wler, for 42n, bee; Amwell, Hesse, for the Mauriti us ; C aro li ne, Williams, for ditto' Alexander Adam, Davis, for Lisbon. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 21.—Wind S.W. to E.S.E , fine. port, the Julia, Hoduette, from St. Vincent's. Sailed . her Majesty's ° " l ` Thalia, for Sheerness. PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.—Wind S.—Arrived off, Mount Stuart' Elphinstone, from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, MAY 20.—Wind S. to N.N. W., stormy breezes sn on t r ; squally.—Arrived the Opossum, packet, from Rio Janeiro—saile d 22d March, on freight 117,000, dollars ; Pandora, packet, from V o n Cruz—sailed on the 7th ult. Tampico, on the 14th, and Havanns the 22d. ; Star, packet, from the West Indies—sailed from St. Thot na: o on the 24th uit. ; Portia, Hatchard, from Macon ; Hero, Savv le : fro for Rotterdam. Speakiugs—Brig Scotia, of Greenock, from B Ob ' a prlc Trieste, on 25th April, in lat. 32, 50N., lon. 41 10S. out 42 dab s ' ig, Cambrian, of Pembroke, from Lisbon for Antigua, 10th April, Ist l for 7 N., lon. 42, 20N. ; Ship Stirling, of Newcastle, from LiverPn w ic Savannah, out nine days, May Sth, in lat. 46 40N., lon. 22 10N, ; in —Arrived,.! Elizabeth, transport, from Cork for Quebec, out five days, May g t "' lat. 48 30N., lon. 20 2.1 N., by te ortia. LIN ERPOL, MAY 21. Wind h variable and light.—Arrived t he rl al! Jones, Fischley, and Philomela, Sprott, from Monte Video; I; e n- Taylor, Gill; Ariatus, Miller; Ellen Mar, Mitchell; and A nn !,-.os, hallo!), from New Orleans ; Chieft a i n , T urne l , f rom S a vannah; ; on , from Wilmington ; Thomas Benn e tt, H agua, f rom Charleston ; ru st, field, from Africa ; Jupiter, H enc k e, f rom S w i n d ermu nde ; 15e ' f r nal from Stettin. Arrived off port—Appleton, from Jamaica; Spring' St. Joseph's. ; COWES, MAY 21.—Arrived the Favourite, Cobden, from Ri° . , Frederick and Louisa, from Pernambuco. ~ rora DARTMOUTH, Mk , : 21.—Arrived the Snellhead, Wossei.s, Airri d O aterdam; was assisted in with dam ag e, b oun d t o Su r inam. - port—Henry Wilhelm, and Johanna, from Batavia. BRISTOL, MAY L—Arrived the Nelson, Weir, from Barbacl°es„%ei. GLOSTER, MAY 21,—Arrived the Braunsherg, Keepe, from )leig-utch. LIMERICK, MAY 9.—Arrived the Belle, Robins, and Effo rt, ings, from London. BELFAST, MAY 19.--Arrived the Le Gross, from Alicant. ,certth HULL, MAY 21.—Arrived the Alert, Grayson, and grill Vicrow, from Hamburgh. BRIGHTON, MAY 21. Arrived the Elphinstone, Dieman's Land. F oem lin, from VBn Six ships outward bound were on the Bar of the the 2d April. THE MARKETS,-(TIUS DA lIUNGERFORD MARKET. The weather this morning being close and damp, was against t ", trade in Meat. Beef, 6id. and 7d. and Bd. ; Mutton, 7d. and 8( :; d ' Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to Sd. per lb., and quality good. Fish plentiful, and cheap ; Turbot, 4s. to 12s. and 14s. ; Sol , s, od. and to3s. per pair; Lobsters, Is. 6(1. to 3s. each. Vegetables are iroPf" , ink, but still dear. Hay and Clover firm—top price about 1 lowest 925. to 945. Straw, 40s. to 455. IT FISH MAKE. To-day again the supply Y pries was good, and were low. Turbot s°' to 12s. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 3s. each; Cod, lt al , ss. each ; 15Iackarel, 3d. to 6d. each ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. each ; mon, Is to Is. 3d. per lb. Trade lively. HAY MARKETS. Prices of the lower qualities of Hay and Clover have advanced 3 to The supply today was good, and the demand equal in ev cr l i r t t s le l ; Meadow Hay, 90s. to 105 s. ; Clover ditto, 105 s. to 1155.; 445. per load. BERMONDSEY WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET• c wt. The supply greater than at this season might have been elP,,cy the The total amount 3,387 tons. The sales are rather depressed "•i c id.. advanced state of the season. York Reds 90s. to 100 s. per ton ; 0 7,55. neys 60s. to 705.; Shaws —to 60s. ; Scotch 60s. to 80s. ; D ev i: loo 4 to 80s. ; Kent, Essex, and Suffolk Whites 555. to 60s. ; for h ites 635.; American Natives 60s. ; Wisbeach Blues 60s. ; ditto "- 50s. to 555. Straw, 3"" COLONIAL MARKETS. rt of The greatest novelty i n th ese mar k ets i s t h e recen t gr eat laW ° l ; of East and West Indi a pro d uce. V ery li ttle Coffee has come' a nd Sugar we have recei ve d 3,600 hlids. and trs. of British Pla nta- i f o idea upwards of 36,000 bags of East India Sugar of different k' i ' d' ' f som a-5,700 packages of te a , an d some R um. Th ese i mports have V er y time been kept out by the wind. The public sales to_day a re :„d tha t significant, consisting of only 1,787 b ags o f B enga l Sugar , — , t3 tion not all in one sale ; 326 bales Mocha Coffee, 266 bags British Plat; the Coffee, and 300 pockets "Malabar Ginger ; and onward fo _!, tri' week there is very little advertised. The sa l es today are of Thee osi fling magnitude as scarcely to be a criterion for the market. r j no eagerness shewn to buy, and both B. P. Sugar and Bang ,, Coffee, both Mocha and Berbice, went at about former prices. rear' The sales to_morrow are 1,100 bags Bengal Sugar; 1,8 00 bag s . og er; Sago, mostly damaged ; 1,000 b ags S a lt pe t re; 62 0 b ags Benga l, the 150 bags Bengal sea-damaged Coffee ; Rice is firm for expor t, °- tendency of the market is to advance. KET.—May 21. e'er Ton. a Walls End Hilda .................. Walls End Hotspur . ........ 2 0 0 Walls End Killingworth ..•..' 92 . Walls - End Be:mont .......... Walls - End Braddyll's Hett ° " Walls. End Hasa, ell ............ 22 0 Walls End Hetton ......... . ..... 22 b Walls End Laranton ............ Walls End Stewart's ........ ,••• 1 0 Walls End Auckland .... .21./ Walls End Gordon ............ 6 Walls End St. Helen's Tee''' . 20 Walls End Devonshire ........ :e last market-day, 37. COAL MAR Per Ton. — --- ;:‘7: Atlair's l9 0 Burdon Flute's Tan field Moor 2O 0 I Carr's Hartley 2J 6 Holywell Leaze'e Main Pontop Windsor lB 0 South Hartley l9 6 fan.tleld Moor 29. 6 Townley lB 6 Willington 2O 6 Wylam Walls End Brown's Walls End Clark and Co lB 6 Ships arrived sine, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAN '2l. n d th e Both the trade and specu: a to rs con ti nue t o p urc h as e largelY , t ' un t, rates may be considered a trifle higher. The entire sales arn ° is, Gel. 7,000 ba^% of which 6,000 were taken on s p ec ul a tion. 300 13 : h „APO; to BIA d. ; 600 Surat, 41,4 d. to sid. ; 100 Pcrnarn, Pd. ; 3 00 ' ls ' 8:d. to 12. d. ; 300 Peruvian, Pd. ; 5,400 American (11 to Wl' . 7,000. 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On the 20th May, the lady of Dr. Golding, of a son. . lion. On the 19th i ns t., in Baker-street, Portman-square, the Mrs. ill‘Leod, of a daughter. 1 - 1. 5 " On the 19th i ns t., i n G rea t M ar lborough-street , Mr s ' Ca On fe, of a son. the 14th inst., at the Priory, Beddingten, the lady o f B. L. Charrington, E sq ., of t w i n s. ____.------------- MARRIED. Beauclerk, Esq., only son of J. Beauclerk, On the 21st inst. at St. George ' s , Hanover-square Henry ‘, S _ rr° ,.; Belgrave-square, to Lady Katharine Frances Ashbu'rnhain, (laugh of the late, and sister of the present Earl of Asllhurni Esq. of Hanover-square, '• DIED. vr • o r of At Richmond, on the 20th inst., Catharine Frances, , Lieut.-Colonel J. M. Clements, aged 38. ---- • . N o. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, c'fun' te 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , i n the eo of MiddlesCx.—Tuesday, May 22, 1838.